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New Year, Clean Start

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I haven’t blogged that much lately but I thought I would share some of the stuff that I had In my drafts section that I never published.

  • Technology is a tool, not the final answer for the GOP
  • One Year, Obama Widget Success.
  • Runkeeper – Managing My Runs
  • DC PHP – Running a User Group.

As for the last two, I don’t manage my runs anymore with Runkeeper. I have moved over to Garmin since my watch is much more accurate than GPS on a phone.  As for DC PHP, I along with some others, organize the DC PHP user group.  You can find out more information on that at www.dcphp.net or www.meetup.com/dc-php

Seven Things – Tagged by Joe LeBlanc

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So this Seven things chain has been going around the web lately and I have finally been tagged. I was tagged by the Joomla! god who keeps all those planes in the air with his sophisticated software algorithms.

Seven things about me you may or may not know;

  1. I used to swim competitively – I swam competitively for about 13 or 14 years. YMCA swim team (Auburn Stingrays), 4yrs of High School (Auburn High School), and 1 yr of College (SUNY Morrisville). I was a distance swimmer. I once was ranked 18th in Section III (NYS) in the 500 freestyle (20 laps). Our High school team was ranked in the top 5 in New York State. My freshmen year we where ranked 1st.
  2. I am/was a Band Geek – I did high school marking band for 5 years (Maroon Vanguard) and 2 years of Drum Corps (Junior Corps DCI Rochester Patriots).
  3. I hate watching fake TV, I prefer documentaries or non-fiction stories – Really I love discovery channel and the science channel or TLC.  Anything that’s real.  “How They Do That”, “Dirty Jobs”, and reality TV are my favorites.
  4. I am the only one in DC that voted for John McCain – Something like 93% of DC voted for Barack Obama. I guess they will see they were wrong sooner or later :-)
  5. I didn’t understand Object Oriented Programing (OOP) until my first job – It’s true! I understand it now though!
  6. I wear a suit to work everyday and I am a PHP Developer - Don’t you? I work at the Library of Congress. It looks more professional and people take me more serious. I did a little unprofessional study by myself and now i will wear a suit or tie to work everyday including Friday’s.  No JEANS ever!
  7. I grew up in Auburn, New York.  Home of the electric chair, Harriet Tubman, William Seward – dude he purchased Alaska home of Sarah Palin, Theodore Case – he put sound to video a thing now called movies, and many more. Oh yea, Auburn also has some of the only original Tiffany glass left in the world.

I guess that’s it.  Now it’s time to tag 7 more people.  Here they are,

  1. Jill Spaeth – College Roommate at Rochester Institute of Technology (@innerspaeth)
  2. Justin Thorp – Keith already tagged him but he lives two doors down so I can bug him to get it done. (@thorpus)
  3. Wes – My favorite bud in Florida.  I worked with him at SONY.  You all know how much I hate Florida but I love my Wes. (@theonlyub)
  4. John Croston – if you are a geek in DC you know him! (@jfcIII)
  5. Andrew Wirtanen – My liberal friend from RIT. (@awirtanen)
  6. Antoine Butler – Simple just a Rock Star. (@aebsr)
  7. I’m going out on a limb and going to pick a the smartest business guy on the web – Jason Calacanis (@JasonCalacanis)

The rules:
1. Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving to all. I know it is a little late, in fact just one day late. Hope all is well for everyone out there. Much happened at the Farrell house this week/weekend. The whole family came in on Thursday, Mom and Dad, Nick, and Brian, Allison and the new addition to the Farrell family Davis. Thursday I went over to Jen’s house to have Thanksgiving dinner with her family and then later that night we both went over to my uncle’s house for a large dinner, desserts, and photo sessions. It was family picture time since everyone was in under one roof. That doesn’t happen much anymore. Those pictures will come as soon as I can get a place to download and post them. Today is Black Friday and I think I’m just going to sit around and maybe do some computer stuff. I have not been feeling that great the past couple of days so I need to just rest up so I’m at the top of my game for work on Monday. Not sure how this cold got me, but a part of it may have been caused by the cold and snowy weather that has arrived in good old Central New York. Other than that its been a full weekend, full of good food and UNO.